July 2016 - vcf-midatlantic

yes, we have no bananas
by Jeffrey Jonas 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

WE NEED YOUR BANANAS. Your banana jack-jumper cords, that it. The analog computers are programmed with real wires. Wires that love to walk away because so many other things use the ever-loving banana plug, and everyone loves the piggyback connectors. Please fight entropy and bring the wires back together, for the love of analog! thank you

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Available soon (semi-OT): vintage Macs and possibly some Cobalt Qubes
by Herb Johnson 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

> I'm primarily interested in the IIci's. ^^^^^ IIcx's I meant, they are very similar. - Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Available soon (semi-OT): vintage Macs and possibly some Cobalt Qubes
by Herb Johnson 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

I'm primarily interested in the IIci's. The LC III and LC474 are cute machines but I need those less. I'm sure the SE/30's will attract more interest than I'd pay. I suggest you power up these oldest Macs, they will likely have problems in starting up or with sound - their capacitors fail with age. I sent a private email, you can discuss details with me privately; contact me if you did not get that email today. Thank you. Herb Johnson near Trenton NJ -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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Available soon (semi-OT): vintage Macs and possibly some Cobalt Qubes
by David Riley 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hi all, My uncle in California is clearing out his earthly effects to move to KY and there are a number of older Macs that should be saved which I don't have the space for. He'd like to see them go to a good home, since he has fond memories of working with all of them. I don't have an exact tally yet (my father is there trying to pack everything up), but I know there are at least some LCIII and LC475 machines, a pair of IIcx machines and one or two Cobalt Qubes (I believe the MIPS ones, not the lame later Intel ones). There may even be an SE/30 or two in there, but those are problematic to ship... unsure how that'll go. Before my dad spends loads of money on shipping things back to the East coast, I'd like to gauge whether there's interest in rehoming these machines. The LCIII and 475 were (IMO) the ultimate expressions of the pizza-box LC Mac, and the Cobalt machines are pretty neat in their own right. They're free to good homes; I can deliver at Festivus, or any time near Philly (the likelihood of my making any of the workshops before Festivus is sadly low). Feel free to respond privately or publicly, doesn't matter to me. I'll have a better list later. - Dave

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WTB S100 connectors
by Mike Loewen 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

I have a need for two S100 backplane connectors. Drop me a note off-list if you have two to spare. Thanks. Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Saturday @ HOPE
by Douglas Crawford 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

I'm glad you still mentioned it Ken, I smiled just the same. On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Ken via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > At 7/21/2016 12:29 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > >>> Except the site says your talk is on Sunday > > > >Ah! Good catch. Bob misread it (he saw the date/time * above * each > session), told me, and so I noticed the same thing. > > > >Syntax error in Frankston. > > I was going to make a joke about circular references (early Visicalc > didn't detect them), but gave up trying. > > - Ken > >

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Saturday @ HOPE
by Evan Koblentz 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

>> Except the site says your talk is on Sunday Ah! Good catch. Bob misread it (he saw the date/time * above * each session), told me, and so I noticed the same thing. Syntax error in Frankston.

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Reminder: social media
by Evan Koblentz 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hey, you! :) Please like/follow us at Facebook.com/vcfederation and Twitter.com/vcfederation. (But spare us your sarcastic rant if you're one of those anti-social media grumps.)

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Saturday @ HOPE
by Evan Koblentz 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Bob Frankston emailed me to point out that he and I are giving talks at the same this during HOPE this Saturday. World-changing programmer vs. lowly historian/journalist... I'd rather listen to him. :)

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Museum Report 07/20/16
by Jeffrey Brace 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

About 10 visitors today. It seems that during the summer many of the visitors are from out of state. Interested kids, so it's all good. Bill I. stopped by to copy some documentation for the TR-20 EAI Analog machine. == Jeff Brace

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